A total of 41,071 emails744 tweets, 106 pages in letters and 350 hours of voice messages. This is what Richard Gadd stated and proved that she had received from the older woman who harassed him for four years.
Now she has brought her own story to a successful Netflix series, which is born from the monologue she wrote after freeing herself from the stalker and which served as therapy.
We talk about ‘Baby Reindeer’ (My stuffed reindeer)which already has more than 13 million views on the streaming platform around the world.
Maybe not everyone knows that the drama of Donny and Martha -as the characters are called in the series- is a true story and, probably, many others will ignore that it was the actor who commissioned Donny who lived through that hell.
She, of course, is not called Martha and her reality in the series is distorted “so that it is not recognized”Gadd noted at the time.
However, given the impact of the series and the particularity of the story, it has obviously been recognized.
Little is known about her despite the fact that social networks, which reach everywhere, They have managed to find her and unmask her. The woman, for her part, is doing everything possible so that her information does not leak.
“I have received death threats”
Yes, she has spoken exclusively to the British newspaper ‘Daily Mail’, where she positions herself as a victim of history as we have seen Martha’s character do so many times in the series.
“He is harassing a woman older than him on television for money and fame,” says the anonymous harasser, who reveals that she has received “death threats from Gadd’s followers,” which makes her now feel like “the victim” of Gadd. all this history.
«He’s Using ‘My Stuffed Reindeer’ to Harass Me Now. “He has written a script that destroys me,” she adds.
In real life, as in the series, Gadd met his stalker while trying to make a future as an actor and comedian, while also working in a London pub. He felt sorry for her when he saw her crying across the bar and bought her a cup of tea.
It was at that moment when the nightmare of calls, gifts, visits to his home, chases down the street and an obsession such that it ended up in court. That he put Gadd through hell at his most vulnerable moment, plunging him into an emotional roller coaster that made him even empathize with that person who was tearing his senses apart. Now that murky idyll is, years later, one of the series of the moment.
